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Detection of volatiles undergoing sublimation from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko coma particles using ROSINA/COPS. II. The nude gauge
Boris Pestoni, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger +5
In an earlier study, we reported that the ram gauge of the COmet Pressure Sensor (COPS), one of the three instruments of the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analys…
Detection of volatiles undergoing sublimation from 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko coma particles using ROSINA/COPS. I. The ram gauge
Boris Pestoni, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger +5
The ESA Rosetta mission has allowed an extensive in-situ study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In measurements performed by the ram gauge of the on-board COmet Pressure Sensor…
Molecule dependent oxygen isotopic ratios in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
K. Altwegg, H. Balsiger, M. Combi +9
The ratios of the three stable oxygen isotopes 16O, 17O and 18O on Earth and, as far as we know in the solar system, show variations on the order of a few percent at most, with a f…
First in-situ detection of the CN radical in comets and evidence for a distributed source
Nora Hänni, Kathrin Altwegg, Boris Pestoni +4
Although the debate regarding the origin of the cyano (CN) radical in comets has been ongoing for many decades, it has yielded no definitive answer to date. CN could previously onl…
CHO-bearing molecules in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Markus Schuhmann, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger +10
In 2004, the Rosetta spacecraft was sent to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the first ever long-term investigation of a comet. After its arrival in 2014, the spacecraft spent m…
Evidence of ammonium salts in comet 67P as explanation for the nitrogen depletion in cometary comae
K. Altwegg, H. Balsiger, J. -J. Berthelier +14
Cometary comae are generally depleted in nitrogen. The main carriers for volatile nitrogen in comets are NH3 and HCN. It is known that ammonia readily combines with many acids like…